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I haven’t seen anything on any media about this……no big hoopla by EIA with a United Routes Director or anything?
 
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https://twitter.com/x/status/1860050894777430269
 
I recently travelled to Japan and had to connect through Denver with United on the way there and connect through Seattle Alaska Airlines back. Both of these connecting flights were at 100% capacity. One funny thing happened on that United flight. The flight attendant asked who needs to connect to another destination within an hour and a half when we parked at the gate because they want those passengers to get off first. It turns out about 70 - 80% of the people put their hands up.

United probably saw these load factors and decided added more flights to other destinations. I believe they upgraded this Denver flight to a larger aircraft a while back.
 
air_ic said:
I recently travelled to Japan and had to connect through Denver with United on the way there and connect through Seattle Alaska Airlines back. Both of these connecting flights were at 100% capacity. One funny thing happened on that United flight. The flight attendant asked who needs to connect to another destination within an hour and a half when we parked at the gate because they want those passengers to get off first. It turns out about 70 - 80% of the people put their hands up.

United probably saw these load factors and decided added more flights to other destinations. I believe they upgraded this Denver flight to a larger aircraft a while back.
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Its 2X/day now. I think you will see Chicago and Houston end up being daily eventually.
 
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These recent announcements have got to be some of the best news YEG has received in a very long time (this includes YEG being named RCAF's western Canadian HQ).

I really hope that these flights do well and that we can at least get another direct to Europe (preferably LHR) and another direct to Dallas and/or NYC.
 
I have a suspicion that United intended to announce Houston daily and had nothing for Chicago but quickly pivoted.
 
LHR Sounds good and all but with whom? WS have ruled it out for the next 10 years or so AC is just a pipe dream. BA seems very unlikely we don’t seem to be their target market.
Another possibility would be Air Lingus. They have taken delivery of their first XLR with six total on order. They are starting service to Nashville a city of similar size They have code shares with AC and Alaska Just spitballing
 
Glenco said:
LHR Sounds good and all but with whom? WS have ruled it out for the next 10 years or so AC is just a pipe dream. BA seems very unlikely we don’t seem to be their target market.
Another possibility would be Air Lingus. They have taken delivery of their first XLR with six total on order. They are starting service to Nashville a city of similar size They have code shares with AC and Alaska Just spitballing
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WS and AC can always change their minds, you know! 😁 All it takes is a change of leadership and positive economic factors.

I'm personally hoping for AC non-stop to LHR. I have family and friends in the UK to visit plus I have Aeroplan miles to burn.
 
Love the new flight routes out of YEG. Only thing missing is NYC (literally the only US East Coast connection we need, because you can reach the rest of the Northeast Corridor by decent quality rail service), LHR/LGA (key hub) and year-round to Frankfurt (another key trans-Atlantic hub) and I’ll be quite satisfied with our flight offerings.
 
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Update. Looks like it was loaded on their website already. https://www.westjet.com/en-ca/flights/direct-flights

ORD 3 weekly (Sunday, Wednesday, Saturday) June 4 - Oct 19
SLC 5 weekly (Monday - Friday) May 15 - Oct 26
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Crap, I just noticed - both cities are seasonal....so out of our "4 new routes - 2 X ORD - both seasonal. SLC - seasonal, ONLY IAH will be Daily. I HATE this seasonal crap!!!
 
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